From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:45:16 GMT
Subject: Re: What's in git.git (stable)
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

>>   commit: discard index after setting up partial commit
>
> IIRC there was also request for proper solution; this was more a hack.

It is not a hack at all.

The more fundamental improvement was along the lines of what I
suggested soon after Kristian's initial round was posted, but
what the current code does is not wrong nor hack.  It is about a
partial commit after all and is not performance critical either.